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Yes, he's worth the max. End of story.
I think this is what it comes down to, no one is suggesting Tony is not an integral part of the Spurs future, but the question is : Is he worth the max ? or close to it ? Because from all indication that's what he can get from next years FA and what he is expecting. I can easily see him getting a Carlos Boozer type of offer ( $ 75 M for 5 years) by a New York next year. The Spurs do have the advantage of offering him a 6 year contract of say $ 85. ($ 14 M a year). But would you spend that kind of money on tony ? Or are we better off going a different direction ?
Yes, he's worth the max. End of story.
Lets wait till after this season to see how he performs...
if he is in 2007 Form, id say yes
I think Tony will also take a paycut so the spurs can sign talent to build around him...
I think Timmy's ways tought Parker to do whats best for the team...
We all have to wait and see..... Im sure NY will give him a MAX Deal to play with Amare
Yes. He's pretty much our only reliable scorer that can play a full Season and into the Playoffs. When Timmy and Manu are both gone in a few years, he's gonna be our veteran leader.
Hopefully George and Tiago will be pretty good by then too.
Oh, and Richard Jefferson too.
Here is the thing , George Hill is to be a FA , the year after TP? You would have to give Hill at least $ 8 M/ year to stay. So does paying two Point guards $ 25 M ( around 40 % of your cap) make good sense ?
Not my money, but I commit to Tony this season. He's freaking 28. Kobe is going on 31 with 13 NBA seasons behind him. Garnett 33, Pierce 32 and Allen 34. The Heat's Magi are younger but will have to play major minutes in order for the Heat to win. This season will be about the long grind. Teams that overuse their key players will suffer in the playoffs.
Tony Parker's not worth a Joe Johnson type max deal and its hard to s out a crippling amount of money for a guy with his miles, patriotism, and style of play. All three of those points towards a likely steep decline in the near future and even in his 08-09 prime he's not an ideal player you want to build around. It would be interesting to see how much the Spurs would want to extend Tony Parker though whose been turning down contract extension talks according to the likes of David Aldridge and a recent SI article.....really seems like he's bound for New York too.
I'm not sure at all, I mean the reasons he didn't play for the France NT was because not only was it the final year of his contract but this is the last year the Spurs will be able to contend for a championship.
This is probably the Pop's last year should Duncan retire, that & an new max contract means nobody would be stopping Parker from playing for his NT, especially since the Spurs won't be contenders. When he plays for his NT like he did last year he suffers from fatigue and doesn't play like a Max contract player at all.
His game relies on his speed which will be declining in a few years, and his skills would decrease even faster should he play for his NT during the summer.
if memory serves me right, last time we went through this with tony he stated he would like to play where eva works (la??) if he wanted to stay here (like he's said a couple times already) don't you think something would be hammered out by now?? I guess we have to wait till July '11 when Canal+ presents 'le decicion con le Tony'
George Hill is getting $8M a year from who? Hill's has yet to be worth anywhere near that kind of money (his best season so far PER = 14.7). Assuming Tony stays, he'll have been a backup all his career... And there will be a new CBA, which is expected to reduce salaries. Get real. The most he will get from some team is the MLE equivalent.
Eventually! TP gonna be in a whole different level this coming 2010-2011. He's gonna prove to everyone wrong, and when i mean everyone it includes the "Spurs" Trade rumor after Trade rumor, people saying he's old and has high miles blah blah blah. The point is, where going to see a totally different Tony Parker. well thats just my opinion.
Yes we should! end of discussion.
I think Tony is gone. I dont think we'll have the option. He'll give up the extra money to play in New York or LA. He'll still make 100 mil on his next contract.
healthy, yes. he's 22 and 7 on 50% when healthy.
Well if Pop continues his man love for Hill and he continues to improve (2nd in most improved 08-09) . I can't see why Hill won't be a least an $ 8M / year guy 2 years from now.
Is he a worth max money to some team? Yes. Is he worth it to the Spurs at this point? Probably not.
Why would you want 2007 Parker? Why not 2008-09 Parker - the best year of his career?
Compared to other players who got max money this summer, Parker probably deserves max money. But I think the Spurs will offer him a little less than that.
I think it would be really cool if;
the NEXT time someone posts a trade/get rid of Parker thread...
if EVERYONE just posts---YES---we should get rid of him now---for nothing---just let him go...
EVERYONE just go along---because that is what Parker haters want anyway--so all this pretense about how it makes sense...how he's leaving anyway, blah,blah,blah...
so just go along with it....
agreed. Tony is a good player as much as the word good says, and I'm sure there are bosses who're willing to pay him max for his service, but the spurs have never been a wealthy club and have never offered a max contract to someone of Tony's caliber. one has to be a legend to make the Spurs pay him max IMHO. I like Tony as a spur and I always will, but I wouldn't be too sad to let him go if he wanted out to earn more.
IMO, George Hill deserves no more than MLE.
If George Hill is worth 8 million a year then Parker's definitely a max player.
No. Max players are athletes you can build a franchise around. I think at his best Tony is a 2nd option on a contending team. I may be in the minority in this, but I think the Spurs need to take a serious look at rebuilding if they do not win the le this year. There is nothing to gain by keeping together a middle of the pack team with aging core players. I want the Spurs to keep Parker this year, but if they suffer another 2nd round exit, I would be in favor of them trading Parker for a couple of draft picks. That way they can rebuild through the draft or stockpile young and talented players and trade them later on for players that are a better fit for the team.
15 mill is the right amount IMO
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